Motivational Quotes

Honesty

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Honesty

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.

There is no right way to do something wrong.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Lyly, John

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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

15.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

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An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

17.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

19.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Shakespeare, William

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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Browne, Merry

22.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

Dodge, John F.

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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

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A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

Proverb, Scottish

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

33.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Benson, Edward Frederic

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

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If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Needham, Richard J.

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Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.

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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Houston, Sam

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Ruskin, John